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Designing Case-based Learning for Virtual Worlds
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Speaker Profile
W. LeRoy Heinrichs Dr. Heinrichs’ earned his MD degree with Honors in his native state of Oklahoma, completed a residency in Obstetrics and Gynecology at Wayne State University, Detroit MI, and earned M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Biochemistry at the University of Oregon Health Sciences campus. His first academic position was at the University of Washington. In 1976, Dr. Heinrichs was appointed Professor and Chairman of Gynecology and Obstetrics at Stanford University where he performed and taught laparoscopic surgery, and recognized the potential for teaching this type of surgery with Virtual Reality systems, like those used by the aviation industry in training pilots. Finding no emerging technologies, he began a start-up company that failed, but retired to SUMMIT where he developed an anatomically correct, human 3D model (Lucy v.2.6) as the virtual anatomy in pelvic surgical simulators. Dr. Heinrichs also initiated a project with Immersion, Inc. for developing a hysteroscopy trainer, now a commercially available trainer. At SUMMIT, where he is now Associate Director, he and colleagues are developing anatomy and surgical simulation projects for distribution over the Next Generation Internet (NGI). His designation, along with SUMMIT, in 2002 for the 8th Annual Satava Award by the Medicine Meets Virtual Reality organization was for his leadership in the field of surgical simulation. He is PI on a Wallenberg Foundation planning grant designing a 3D World for training of medical teams for crisis management of trauma. Dr. Heinrichs writes on Surgical Simulation and lectures widely on this topic. |
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